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Dance With Marmots - A Pacific Crest Trail Adventure: Thru-hike along the Pacific Crest trail from Mexico to Canada.
by George G. Spearing ISBN: 9781411656185
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
by Christopher McDougall ISBN-10: 0307266303
Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America (2009)
by Eric Simons ISBN-10: 1590202201
The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mt. McKinley
by Barbara Washburn
(ISBN: 0945397917)
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The Silk Road Journey With Xuanzang (2003)
by Sally Wriggins
Period: 630's CE
Region: Asia ISBN-10: 0813365996
Along the Edge of America
by Peter Jenkins
(ISBN: 0395877377)
Annapurna
by Maurice Herzog
(ISBN: 1558215492)
At the Mercy of the River: An Exploration of the Last African Wilderness
by Peter Stark
(ISBN: 0345441818)
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Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment
by Richard Bernstein
Time Period: 630's
Region: Asia ISBN-10: 0679781579
Close to the Wind: An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity
by Pete Goss
(ISBN: 0786707410)
My Rating 5 Stars
Courting the Diamond Sow: Kayaking Tibet's Forbidden Tsangpo River *
by Wicklife W. Walke
(ISBN: 0792264215)
Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
by Edward Dolnick
(ISBN: 0060955864)
My Rating: 4 Stars
Ibn Fadlan's Journey To Russia
by Ahmad Ibn Fadlan
Region: Middle East, Russia ISBN-10: 155876366X
Godforsaken Sea: The True Story of a Race Through the World’s Most Dangerous Waters *
by Derek Lundy
(ISBN: 0385720009)
Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
(ISBN: 0385-486804)
My Rating: 4 Stars
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
(ISBN 0385494785)
My Rating: 4.5 Stars
The Last Expedition: Stanley’s Mad Journey Through the Congo
by Daniel Liebowitz
(ISBN: 0393328732)
My Rating 3.5 Stars
The Last River
by Todd Balf
(ISBN: 060980801x)
My Rating: 5 Stars
High Adventure: The True Story of the First Ascent of Everest
by Edmund Hillary
(ISBN: 0195167341)
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
(ISBN: 0140258795)
My Rating: 3.5 Stars
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Milard
(ISBN: 0767913736)
Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2
by Jennifer Jordan
(ISBN: 0060587164)
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
by Jason Roberts
(ISBN: 9780007161263)
My Rating: 4 Stars
Seven Years in Tibet
by Heinrich Harrer
(ISBN: 0874778883)
My Rating: 4 Stars
South: The Last Antarctic Expedition of Shackleton and the Endurance
by Sir Ernest Shackleton and Tim Cahill
(ISBN 1558217835)
My Rating: 5 Starts
Return by Water: Surf Stories and Adventures
by Kimball Taylor
(ISBN: 0976538105)
My Rating: 3.5 Stars
A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf
by John Muir and Peter Jenkins
(ISBN: 0395901472)
My Rating: 3.5 Stars
Touching the Void
by Joe Simpson
(ISBN: 0060730552)
My Rating: 4.5 Starts
A Walk Across America
by Peter Jenkins
(ISBN: 006095955X)
A Voyage for Madmen
by Peter Nichols
(ISBN: 139780060957032)
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
by Bill Bryson
(ISBN: 0767902521)
My Rating: 4.5 Starts
Wide Open: A life in Supercross
by Jeremy McGrath with Chriss Palmer
(ISBN: 0060537272)
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind: Explorer, Naturalist, and Buccaneer: The Life of William Dampier
by Diana Preston, Michael Preston
(ISBN: 0802714250)
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
by Laurence Bergreen
(ISBN: 006093638X)
The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
by Nancy Marie Brown
(ISBN: 015101440X)
Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu
by Laurence Bergreen
(ISBN: 140004345X)
A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza De Vaca : The Extraordinary Tale of a Shipwrecked Spaniard Who Walked Across America in the Sixteenth Century (Hardcover)
by Andrés Reséndez
(ISBN: 0465068405)
The Bounty : The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
by Caroline Alexander
(ISBN-10: 0142004693)
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
(ISBN-10: 0141001828)
My Rating: 4.5 Stars
Farther Than Any Man
by Martin Dugard
(ISBN: 0743400690)
My Rating: 5 starts
My Life and Travels: An Anthology (2003)
by Wilfred Thesiger (Author), Alexander Maitland (Editor)
Time Period: 1954-1994 ISBN-10: 0006552129
Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition (2007)
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Time Period: 1838-1842 ISBN-10: 067003231X
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (2006)
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Time Period: 1620's ISBN-10: 0143111973
by George G. Spearing
ISBN: 9781411656185
by Christopher McDougall
ISBN-10: 0307266303
by Eric Simons
ISBN-10: 1590202201
by Barbara Washburn
(ISBN: 0945397917)
by Sally Wriggins
Period: 630's CE
Region: Asia
ISBN-10: 0813365996
by Meriwether Lewis (Author), William Clark (Author), Stephen E. Ambrose (Foreword), Bernard DeVoto (Editor) (ISBN: 0395859964)
by Peter Jenkins
(ISBN: 0395877377)
by Maurice Herzog
(ISBN: 1558215492)
by Peter Stark
(ISBN: 0345441818)
by Richard Bernstein
Time Period: 630's
Region: Asia
ISBN-10: 0679781579
by Pete Goss
(ISBN: 0786707410)
My Rating 5 Stars
by Wicklife W. Walke
(ISBN: 0792264215)
by Edward Dolnick
(ISBN: 0060955864)
My Rating: 4 Stars
by Ahmad Ibn Fadlan
Region: Middle East, Russia
ISBN-10: 155876366X
by Derek Lundy
(ISBN: 0385720009)
by Jon Krakauer
(ISBN: 0385-486804)
My Rating: 4 Stars
by Jon Krakauer
(ISBN 0385494785)
My Rating: 4.5 Stars
by Daniel Liebowitz
(ISBN: 0393328732)
My Rating 3.5 Stars
by Todd Balf
(ISBN: 060980801x)
My Rating: 5 Stars
by Edmund Hillary
(ISBN: 0195167341)
by Dava Sobel
(ISBN: 0140258795)
My Rating: 3.5 Stars
by Candice Milard
(ISBN: 0767913736)
by Jennifer Jordan
(ISBN: 0060587164)
by Jason Roberts
(ISBN: 9780007161263)
My Rating: 4 Stars
by Heinrich Harrer
(ISBN: 0874778883)
My Rating: 4 Stars
by Sir Ernest Shackleton and Tim Cahill
(ISBN 1558217835)
My Rating: 5 Starts
by Kimball Taylor
(ISBN: 0976538105)
My Rating: 3.5 Stars
by John Muir and Peter Jenkins
(ISBN: 0395901472)
My Rating: 3.5 Stars
by Joe Simpson
(ISBN: 0060730552)
My Rating: 4.5 Starts
by Peter Jenkins
(ISBN: 006095955X)
by Peter Nichols
(ISBN: 139780060957032)
by Bill Bryson
(ISBN: 0767902521)
My Rating: 4.5 Starts
by Jeremy McGrath with Chriss Palmer
(ISBN: 0060537272)
by William Least Heat-Moon
(ISBN-10: 0316353299)
by Diana Preston, Michael Preston
(ISBN: 0802714250)
by Laurence Bergreen
(ISBN: 006093638X)
by Nancy Marie Brown
(ISBN: 015101440X)
by Laurence Bergreen
(ISBN: 140004345X)
by Andrés Reséndez
(ISBN: 0465068405)
by Caroline Alexander
(ISBN-10: 0142004693)
by Nathaniel Philbrick
(ISBN-10: 0141001828)
My Rating: 4.5 Stars
by Martin Dugard
(ISBN: 0743400690)
My Rating: 5 starts
by Wilfred Thesiger (Author), Alexander Maitland (Editor)
Time Period: 1954-1994
ISBN-10: 0006552129
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Time Period: 1838-1842
ISBN-10: 067003231X
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Time Period: 1620's
ISBN-10: 0143111973